Supergirl: Who's Who in the New DC Movie Trailer

James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU whitethorn presently lone person 1 live-action movie nether its belt, but that’ll alteration successful 2026. Next up is manager Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl, arsenic Milly Alcock’s Girl of Steel breaks retired connected her own. And breaks a batch of different worldly for bully measure.

Supergirl is absorbing successful that, dissimilar Superman oregon the upcoming Clayface, it’s straight based connected a circumstantial DC Comics storyline. How does the caller movie accommodate Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and who are each these caller characters? Here’s what you request to cognize astir the adjacent live-action DC epic and each the characters successful the caller Supergirl trailer.

Milly Alcock’s Supergirl

Unsurprisingly, astir of the spotlight successful this teaser trailer is directed astatine Alcock’s Supergirl. There person been a batch of antithetic versions of Supergirl successful the comics, not each of which person been depicted arsenic Superman’s relative from Krypton.

But here, Alcock is playing a reasonably accepted mentation of the character. This is Kara Zor-El. Like her cousin, she’s a subsister of Krypton’s destruction, though she’s intelligibly taking the nonaccomplishment of her satellite a batch harder than Kal-El. It doesn’t assistance that Kara really has memories of beingness connected Krypton and didn’t get connected Earth until she was a teenager. Losing your household and your full homeworld tin measurement a idiosyncratic down, adjacent erstwhile they person super-strength.

This isn’t the archetypal clip we’ve seen Supergirl look successful live-action. She was played by Helen Slater successful 1984’s Supergirl movie, arsenic good arsenic by Laura Vandervoort successful Smallville and Melissa Benoist successful The CW’s Supergirl series. But successful presumption of personality, this is simply a precise antithetic instrumentality connected the quality from immoderate of those versions. This Supergirl is hardly the clean-cut, all-American leader and the spitting representation of her cousin. She’s a hard-drinking, hard-partying 23-year-old with a batch of affectional baggage.

That’s conscionable 1 mode successful which the Supergirl movie is drafting straight from the Woman of Tomorrow comic. Written by Tom King and illustrated by Bilquis Evely, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is notable for delivering a overmuch darker and moodier instrumentality connected the Girl of Steel than fans were utilized to. It depicts Kara arsenic a depressed loner bushed of surviving successful her cousin’s shadiness and inactive mourning the nonaccomplishment of her home.

As successful the comic, it appears the movie opens with Supergirl travelling to an alien satellite to get plastered and fto disconnected immoderate steam. She beauteous overmuch has to caput into abstraction to get drunk, arsenic Earth’s yellowish prima causes her assemblage to process intoxicant arsenic rapidly arsenic she tin guzzle it down. But nary sooner does Kara find a bully watering spread than she’s drawn - precise overmuch against her volition - into a larger battle. That’s wherever our adjacent quality comes in.

Eve Ridley’s Ruthye Marye Knoll

Like the comic, the movie pairs Supergirl with a quality named Ruthye Marye Knoll (played by 3 Body Problem’s Eve Ridley), a nonmigratory of the distant alien satellite wherever Supergirl has travel to drink. Despite her young property and tiny stature, Ruthye is connected a single-minded ngo of vengeance. Her father, a humble farmer, was murdered by a antheral named Krem of the Yellow Hills (more connected him successful a minute). Krem stabbed Ruthye’s begetter and near the leaf behind, contempt the information that it’s a precise good and invaluable weapon. That’s the sword Ruthye present carries, with the anticipation that she tin instrumentality it to sender successful the bloodiest mode possible.

Early successful the comic, Ruthye approaches Kara successful the anticipation of hiring her arsenic a mercenary. Despite her protestations, it’s not agelong earlier Kara finds herself drawn into Ruthye’s revenge quest. Deep down, Kara sees thing of herself successful young Ruthye, a miss who mislaid her metaphorical satellite arsenic surely arsenic Kara mislaid her literal one.

If each of this is starting to look a small familiar, that’s due to the fact that Woman of Tomorrow shares a batch successful communal with Charles Portis’ 1968 novel-turned-films True Grit. Ruthye is fundamentally the quality Mattie - a young miss whom nary 1 takes earnestly but is nevertheless determined to avenge her slain father. That, of course, makes Supergirl herself into the Rooster Cogburn quality - typical of the instrumentality who reluctantly escorts her young complaint connected a foolhardy mission.

Basically, Woman of Tomorrow is arsenic overmuch a Western arsenic it is simply a superhero tale, with a batch of the trappings fans of the genre person travel to expect. Gunn has made a large woody retired of the information that each DCU movie is stylistically unique, and this looks to beryllium 1 constituent that volition acceptable Supergirl isolated from Superman.

Matthias Schoenaerts’ Krem of the Yellow Hills

Several shots successful the trailer showcase the main villain of the film, Krem of the Yellow Hills (who’s played by The Old Guard 2’s Matthias Schoenaerts). In the comic, Krem is introduced arsenic a Kingsagent who seeks structure with Ruthye’s household for the night, lone to clash with her begetter and execution him. The comic past follows Kara and Ruthye arsenic they prosecute Krem crossed the galaxy. He’s thing if not a wily and persistent foe.

As the trailer shows, Krem has a afloat set of rascals and criminals helping to backmost him up, giving Kara plentifulness of cannon fodder to combat disconnected successful the film. If a clump of gun-toting goons doesn’t look similar overmuch of a lucifer for a Kryptonian, well, don’t needfully expect Kara to beryllium operating astatine afloat spot successful the film. As mentioned, she travels to this distant satellite specifically to get distant from Earth’s yellowish prima and alteration herself to get drunk. The drawback is that this leaves her successful a comparatively weakened state. Her spot and invulnerability aren’t each there, adding an other constituent of information to this revenge quest.

This means fans shouldn’t expect a DC movie connected the aforesaid scope arsenic Gunn’s Superman. Kara astir apt won’t beryllium juggling buildings and lifting elephantine kaiju successful this film. She’ll beryllium operating arsenic a leaner, meaner benignant of heroine. Gunn and Gillespie person made nary concealed of the information that Supergirl is simply a smaller, much low-budget movie than Superman, adjacent though small of it seems to beryllium taking spot connected Earth.

Jason Momoa’s Lobo

As overmuch arsenic Supergirl is simply a nonstop adaptation of the Woman of Tomorrow comic, this isn’t a 1:1 recreation of that story. Nowhere is that much evident than with the quality that Jason Momoa has been formed arsenic Lobo. Lobo is obscurity to beryllium recovered successful the comic, but he’s making his DCU debut successful the film.

For those not acquainted with Lobo, aka the Main Man, aka Master Frag, aka the Scourge of the Cosmos, he’s beauteous overmuch the closest happening DC has to a Wolverine character. He’s got a likewise atrocious cognition and anti-heroic slant. He’s a bounty huntsman who travels the cosmos connected his hovering motorcycle. He has small patience for anyone isolated from his favored canine Dawg and the abstraction dolphins helium loves truthful much.

With this role, Momoa becomes the archetypal large DCEU seasoned to beryllium recast arsenic a caller quality for the DCU. It’s not astatine each astonishing that helium would beryllium tapped for Lobo, though. Apart from the tegument tone, he’s fundamentally a dormant ringer for Lobo already, and galore would reason this is the DC relation helium should person been playing from the start.

We lone spot Lobo successful 1 changeable successful the teaser, unfortunately, truthful there’s small denotation of however precisely he’ll beryllium worked into the plot. We could spot him being hired by Krem to halt Supergirl and Ruthye. Lobo is beardown capable to instrumentality connected Kryptonians astatine afloat strength, overmuch little the weakened authorities Kara volition find herself successful here.

But by the end, we presume the 2 volition enactment speech their differences. Lobo’s not specified a atrocious feline heavy down. Well, not really. Lobo and Kara adjacent person immoderate important qualities successful common. They some emotion their respective dogs, for 1 thing. And Lobo besides knows what it’s similar to beryllium the past surviving subordinate of his species. Never caput the information that he’s lone the past Czarnian due to the fact that helium killed each the others.

We besides fishy Lobo is being added to this communicative to counteract immoderate accusations of Supergirl being a movie geared toward women specifically. He’ll surely up the testosterone origin by respective degrees. And going backmost to the True Grit comparison, Gillespie and writer Ana Nogueira whitethorn person wanted a 2nd quality helping Ruthye connected her quest, echoing the fraught dynamic betwixt Rooster Cogburn and La Boeuf.

Supergirl’s Parents

Of the presently confirmed formed of Supergirl, the lone 2 large characters we don’t spot successful the trailer are Kara’s parents, Zor-El (David Krumholtz) and Alura In-Ze (Emily Beecham). We bash spot a little changeable of Krypton, though, wherever it looks similar Kara’s location metropolis of Kandor is being bottled up by Brainiac. That astir apt means we’re getting a flashback to Kara’s root communicative astatine immoderate constituent successful the film.

It’ll beryllium absorbing to spot precisely however Zor-El and Alura are portrayed here. Superman surely turned heads with its unconventional depiction of Kal-El’s commencement parents. There, we learned they sent their babe to Earth not to beryllium the planet’s top defender, but to conquer humanity and commencement a harem to rebuild the Kryptonian people. Are Kara’s parents chopped from that aforesaid cloth? Does that power her much cynical worldview?

Krypto Returns and Kandor Shrinks - How Supergirl Ties Back to Gunn’s Superman

Speaking of Kandor, the changeable of Kara’s location raises the question of conscionable however overmuch this caller movie volition necktie backmost to Superman and its upcoming sequel, 2027’s Man of Tomorrow. News precocious broke that Brainiac is the main villain of Man of Tomorrow, a menace truthful overwhelming that helium forces David Corenswet’s Superman and Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor to articulation together. Supergirl present looks arsenic though it whitethorn laic the groundwork for Brainiac’s DCU debut, revealing however the villainous mastermind shrunk the metropolis of Kandor and bottled it up. Heck, helium whitethorn adjacent crook retired to beryllium the 1 who destroyed Krypton successful the archetypal place.

At the precise least, the opening country successful the trailer makes it wide that fans are successful for much of Kara’s faithful pooch Krypto. Krypto has rapidly go the Baby Yoda of the DCU, and we’re not astatine each amazed to spot this spinoff milking the existent Krypto craze. But volition helium look arsenic prominently arsenic helium did successful Superman? That remains to beryllium seen.

There’s besides the question of whether immoderate different acquainted faces from Superman volition amusement up. What astir Supes himself? It seems lone fitting to travel up Alcock’s astonishment cameo successful Superman with different reunion of the cousins successful Supergirl. But arsenic before, don’t expect DC to spoil that quality up of time.

Ultimately, arsenic overmuch arsenic Gunn has billed Supergirl arsenic a standalone movie with its ain agenda, we are expecting it to nexus backmost to the Superman movies successful a reasonably important way. Supergirl could easy upwind up being an important prelude to Man of Tomorrow, particularly if Kara herself is meant to play a supporting role. There’s astir apt a bully crushed introducing Supergirl has been 1 of Gunn’s archetypal priorities successful the DCU.

What bash you deliberation of the archetypal Supergirl teaser? Are you stoked for the adjacent DCU adventure? Let america cognize successful the comments below.

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